The Pickton Farms Murders

Victims

Robert Pickton had almost 50 victims, causing an immense amount of grief to many different families. The victims were usually indigenous girls who had home troubles and ended up on the streets of Vancouver selling their body and on drugs. While many of these women remain unidentified and unknown, many of the identities of Pickton's victims have been confirmed. These are just some of the people who's lives were ended on the farm.

Andrea Joesbury grew up around alcoholism, physical abuse and mental illness. When a boyfriend convinced 16-year-old Joesbury to move away with him it seemed like the perfect escape. It wasn't. Her boyfriend was a drug dealer who wound up getting her addicted to his products and she started to sell herself on the streets to support her new habit. She worked for a bunch of pimps who violently abused her. But her family remembers her as a loving daughter with a big smile and a person who was a wonderful big sister to her siblings. She had given birth and had a daughter when she was last seen in June 2001.

One of the few victims to actually survive, Wendy Lynn Eistetter managed to stab and escape off his farm after taking multiple stab wounds from Pickton on March 23, 1997. Afterward, Eistetter went to the Royal Colombian hospital to bandage up her wounds, but at the same time Pickton was in the exact same hospital for treating his. Pickton was arrested for attempted murder, but the case did not go far because Eistetter wasn't considered an honorable witness due to her heavy drug use that day, The case was dismissed and Pickton was free.

Sereena Abotsway never had a very good life, but friends say that she was able to make the best of it. She had fetal alcohol syndrome when she was born in a bad area of town. Both her biological parents died when she was young, with her father losing himself to a drug habit. Her life seemed to turn around when she was taken in by foster parents Bert and Anna Draayers. They Raised the difficult girl to the best of their abilities, and she stayed with them from the age of four until she was 17. But she was inclined to violence and when her adoptive parents couldn't handle her anymore, they were forced to place her in a group home. It was there that the impressionable teen was given drugs and a lifestyle that would eventually see her working the streets. Despite her life selling her body, Abotsway was also an activist for the women she worked with, and when her colleagues began disappearing from the streets of Vancouver in the 80s and 90s, she often spoke up at rallies and demanded action. But she joined the growing list in August 2001 at the age of 29, and her remains were later dug up and identified on the Pickton farm.

Marnie Lee Frey was originally reported missing in Campbell River but really disappeared in Vancouver. She was a known drug addict and sex trade worker in the Downtown Eastside area. She was last seen in August 1997. She seemed to have it all - a loving home and a family that supported her. She even attended a Christian school. But when Marnie Frey had a daughter at age 18, her life changed. She was lured into the world of drugs through a local gang and finally wound up on the streets of Vancouver selling herself to keep her habit. Despite the alteration, she always phoned home, sometimes up to eight times a day, to find out how her little girl was doing. Her remains were found among those recovered on that lonely farm in Port Coquitlam, B.C.

Not alot is known about how Brenda Ann Wolfe got from Lethbridge, Alberta to the mean streets of Vancouver's East side. She was briefly addicted to drugs but seemed to have turned her life around, working as a waitress and a bouncer in a local eatery. Her friends say she was never a prostitute and in fact worked to defend them if they were attacked, in what's being called a 'street enforcer' role. It was because of that identity that so many were surprised to see her named as one of Robert Pickton's alleged victims. She disappeared in February 1999.